Android users can now download the official Windows Phone Central app

For those of you that carry more than one smartphone you'll be pleased to hear the Mobile Nations family now has a new app addition - Windows Phone Central for Android. I'm sure its pretty fair to say that most of us will have friends rocking an Android smartphone - so send them over the below link and get them introduced to what Windows Phone Central has to offer.

They currently may not know what they're missing out on.

As you would expect, users will have access to all the latest news as well as our forums - meaning for a well rounded Mobile Nations experience straight from your smartphone.

Along with the Android Central app this is the fifth application we've now brought to the Android platform - along with CrackBerry, iMore, and Smartwatchfans. But don't forget that if you're still a die hard Windows Phones user you had better make sure you have our own WPCentral app installed.

Hit up Google Play to download the Windows Phone Central app and spread the word.

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Android users can now download the official Windows Phone Central app

I have an iphone... can we get a WP Central app! :) I just have the webpage as a tile on my homescreen on my iphone. haha I am waiting till 8.1 comes out to see if I'll make the switch to Windows Phone! The apps is one things that really holding me to the iphone... wish windows would be caught up but for some things its just not there yet. sadly. :( Uber, Lyft, FlyWheel... those would be great to have. Oh, and a Spotify app that actually works. I've heard its really bad. :( I have my hopes up for WP though!

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Original WM and WP user herr, trying out the GalaxyS4 for the 1st time... missed my Lumia1020 right away... but have to say Android is more convenient to use because of Gmail and the all apps all around.

WP is so much smoother, faster and user friendly... once the apps catch up, game over!

I do mis 6tag on WP and the FB/Twitter integration with contact s on WP. That's definitely ahead of the curve.

I love my Lumia 925 and Nexus 5 and Moto X and use an iphone 5 for work. So 3 platforms and 4 devices! I like to keep up with all of this and downloaded this app on my androids as soon as I read the story on Android Central!

I am just waiting for WP to bump it's features up slightly before I come back. Notification center, separate ringer volumes (did you guys just get this), so on and so forth. I have written what I need a couple times in other threads on the site so I won't state then here. Modern UI (rip metro)is the best looking UI out there and both Google and Apple have borrowed dedicates from Microsoft.

I tried the wp experience for 3 month's this year. Love the look and feel of the lumia phone's. Had a 900 and then a 820. Got the amber update and it bricked my phone so I went back to android. Have an s4 and it's a great phone. Wp needs a better notification center and more games. Personally I think it lacks customization too. Also in some of the apps they have ported over are missing features and cost money. You put android on a lumia phone and I'd buy one though. I work at a bowling alley part time and people would ask me about my phone cause I had the yellow back on my 820. But after people would check out the app store they'd be like nice phone needs more apps. I am glad that this app is on android. I have a 820 as my back up phone in case my s4 breaks being that I'm on straight talk.

I just bought the nexus 5(because I'm with tmobile and want a bigger screen with a quad core so don't tell me about the 925) to use till T-Mobile decides to get something I want and I really miss the wpcentral app so had to use my hd7 every night I get home to read news about window phone so that's great. Can't wait for Nokia or Microsoft to stop this at&t exclusive bs!! I'm so surprised about the stuff that Android dont have but WP does but it's made to be all this great thing. If WP gets a notification center plus get these developers and businesses that just brush it off, it will be just unstoppable.

Nice app. And no, not all Android users hate WP. Nokia makes a helluva good looking piece of hardware. The software seems fantastic. I'm just waiting on the ecosystem to become a bit more robust, which seems weird since we're talking an Microsoft.

Downloaded for my Nexus 5 and will do for my LG G2 when it arrives. Oddly, I don't have it for my 1020, my wife's 1520.....I'll have to go give the WP app a look. I actually prefer using the good ole web browser than apps...makes me fell like I'm using a PC. Maybe I'm just old.

I own a Lumia 820 and a Nexus 7 and the Android version is super responsive so much so that my 820 seems like a snail on the Wp app.alto there's much more content on screen on the android version.The app is so much better its not even funny

Yeah I like wp too. And I saw it. I was just for the hell of it typing wp central in Google play and there it was. I figured since there is a imore app (yuck) in Google play there might be a wp central one.

A bigger point to note from this story is the fact that mobilenations now has 5 official apps on android but nothing on WP. Why the unequal treatment? Guess even here WP is too insignificant to bother with.

They don't have it on iOS either so don't make this a "buah, here's WP without anything again".

Since Android controls over 80% of the market it's more than natural that they get the Apps first. Then iOS will follow and then WP. If you want WP to get them faster, call Jesus and ask him to perform a miracle that puts WP with 80% of the mobile phone market =P

Why is it that they have this app and we don't have the Android Central app? Doesn't that imply again that Android always gets prioritized more than WP? Jay shouldn't have done this for the sake of this platform at least!

Writing snarky comments doesn't magically make you right. Mobile Nations is hypocritically ignoring WP. Then you come here, bash other big sites or developers for not making Windows Phone apps. I mean I totally get that you want to make money from a rather "enthusiastic" crowd but not admitting that, is really annoying.

Fact that people "bitch" about something doesn't mean you should disrespectful to them. People( including myself) like to bitch about stuff, if you're going to run a site like WPCentral, you should be prepared for stuff like that.

One that drive Mercedes don't bitch about gas prices because they would look like a tool. One springs for a smart phone that cost more then a flip phone then bitch over 99¢? That makes one look like a tool. So bitch on my friend

I really wish that Mobile Nations would create a unified app instead of these fragmented apps representing each site. With their current road map, they'll have to create 4 different apps (possibly 5 to include smartwatchfans) for 4 different ecosystems, resulting in 16 different apps that they'll have to manage with updates and improvements. Why not just create 4 Mobile Nations apps, one for each ecosystem, and have each app contain everything a user would need to navigate through each of the Mobile Nations' sites and forums? That sounds like such a better idea all around!

We have not decided if we are going to leave the site specific apps up once the unified app is out. Having each site's app is great for discoverability (people searching the stores), but yes a pain for maintenance.

I think you should leave separated apps and add a unified one. That way those who go across all platforms get use a unified, and those who only care about one or two of the platforms can have their apps more exclusively tailored for their needs.

As long as the need to maintain the many individual apps doesn't impede on improvements and feature developments towards the apps, I could agree with the idea of keeping them in their respective stores. My argument to unify the different sites into one app for each ecosystem was mainly motivated with the idea that each unified app would then be more polished and feature-rich compared to the use and maintenance of many individual apps. I wouldn't want Mobile Nations' ability to improve their apps be hindered by the extensive amount of man hours needed to maintain the individual apps.

Its only just launched for android so know one can complain that they paid and others didn't because they cant. I guarantee people will complain that they paid for the app on windows phone and its not fair others don't have to pay now

I tried everything - unpin from start, reboot, start again and pin - no luck. Reinstalling did not help too; and I can't see wpcentral in the background tasks list. But when I click on advanced in background tasks, it says "these apps can run in the background, and you may not be able to block all of them". I can see wpcentral is greyed out in the advanced list and can't change any settings for it there.

EDIT: If it's of any help, I am on lumia black - only bought the WPC app after updating to black; so not sure if it's a problem related to the black update.

EDIT 2: Oh man! I figured it out! There is an option to turn off/on the live tiles in the settings page of the WPC APP. It was off by default - I turned it on and BAM! Live tiles are a go!! Even has the option to custiomise the color and update style of the tile! Thanks everyone for the help. Maybe it would help to mention that live tiles are turned off by default in the app description.

Ugh. I just tried this on my One X and it's just such a more beautiful and faster app than the WPCentral app on my Lumia 1020. And the Android app is free! If Mobile Nations is developing these apps themselves, then they should do it for Windows Phone as well, for FREE, like it is on Android.

With the header and the status bar at the bottom, plus ads, and you get next to no space for actual content. I have no problems paying. I just meant that this Android app looks plain superior to our app in every way. Let's hope the WP app steps it up.